“The Highlands are considered beautiful today, but Johnson didn’t think so. Their appearance, he wrote, was “of matter incapable of form or usefulness, dismissed by nature from her care and disinherited of her favours, left in its original elemental state, or quickened only with one sullen power of useless vegetation.†Many Englishmen regarded even the Alps as a horrible icy obstacle on the way to Italy.20 Damrosch, Leo. The Club (Kindle Locations 4554-4558). Yale University Press. Kindle Edition. ”
